"get got" meaning in English

See get got in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: gets got [present, singular, third-person], getting got [participle, present], got got [participle, past], got got [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|get<,,got> got}} get got (third-person singular simple present gets got, present participle getting got, simple past and past participle got got)
  1. (slang) To get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-get_got-en-verb-zNeXnOsv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "In prison I knew I had to make the first move or else I'd be gettin' got.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Did he get stabbed last night? — Yeah, he got got.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Frank H. Spearman, Laramie Holds the Range, Charles Scribner's Sons:",
          "text": "And the kind of man you can hire isn't as keen on getting a man as the man himself is on not getting 'got'—that's where the chance is, sometimes, to pull out better than even.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:",
          "text": "\"He can weasel out if^([sic]) it.\" Ibanez massaged her knuckles. \"He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch.\"",
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        "To get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise."
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        [
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          "apprehended"
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          "beaten",
          "beaten"
        ],
        [
          "defeated",
          "defeated"
        ],
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          "vanquished",
          "vanquished"
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        "(slang) To get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise."
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          "text": "In prison I knew I had to make the first move or else I'd be gettin' got.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "Did he get stabbed last night? — Yeah, he got got.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Frank H. Spearman, Laramie Holds the Range, Charles Scribner's Sons:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:",
          "text": "\"He can weasel out if^([sic]) it.\" Ibanez massaged her knuckles. \"He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch.\"",
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          "defeated"
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        "(slang) To get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise."
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}

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